Tag Archives: Plato

HOLD ME MY DADDY SO I CAN LIFT YOU UP

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Dave

” Hold me my daddy, I never felt lower than dirt on the floor. I say hold me my daddy, I never felt like crying oceans before. If this means war, why are we in it? Might’ve fired off a … Continue reading →

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CHAOS AND CREATION: ANTAGONIZING THE FIRST MOVERS

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Dave

Joseph Mallord William Turner has been called a single genius; unique among England’s many painters of talent, intelligence and originality. A magician at creating absurd sensory perceptions that evoked deep mystery, and a sense of he fugitive, through a force … Continue reading →

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ITS ONLY ROCK N' ROLL

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Dave

In 1830 French Romanticism truly bloomed with Victor Hugo’s Hernani and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, both works that fully embraced Diderot’s mandate: the Symphonie Fantastique, with its programatic autobiographical backdrop and dense intertwining of the spheres of composer and composition, would, … Continue reading →

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DOCTRINE OF DUPLICITY

Posted on March 20, 2010 by Dave

” For that small matter of lies”, wrote Machiavelli,”I am a doctor and hold my degrees. Life has taught me to confound false and true, till no man knows either”. In ”The Prince” his personal confession becomes a general rule; … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Albert Camus, Aristophanes, Cesare Borgia, Charles VIII of France, Florentine Italy, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, King Charles VIII, Machiavelli, Machiavelli The Prince, Neo-Platonism, Plato, Salman Rushdie, Savonarola, William Lee Adams, William Lee Adams Time magazine | 1 Comment

WHEN GOODNESS COMES TO A STICKY END

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Dave

Machiavelli: the name leaves no one indifferent. Perhaps one of the most hated men in history among a gallery of rogues. He has been charged, down through the centuries with being the sole poisonous source of political monkey business, of … Continue reading →

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PRIMAVERA AND THE HERMETIC OCTAVE

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Dave

Interpreting the mythology of a work of art may fall under the domain of the art sleuth, and an intrepid one at that.Take for example Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece, ”Primavera”. Those who are willing to settle for a poetical tableau and … Continue reading →

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The Cat Who Ate the Family Parrot

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Dave

Once that cat was out of the bag, all hell broke loose. A clever cat with the verbal skills of Socrates and Plato, but lacking the attendant maturity.In Algeria in the 1930s, legend has been passed down that a common … Continue reading →

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Grow Your Own Soup

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Dave

The comedies of the Aristophanes ( 444-380 BC ) include eleven that survive: Acharnians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace, Birds, Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, Ecclesiazusae, Frogs, and Plutus. And the missing twenty-nine which remain at large, literary and poetic works of the Absent … Continue reading →